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[nfe]

Couple kind words in the pickups section so I guess I might as well let a few others listen to it, I've never posted it on this forum as I reckoned there'd be little interest in my blackened crust/grind band  :lol:

Anyway, folks can have a listen, album's coming out later this year, feature in Terrorizer soon. Positive reviews and abject hatred equally welcome. Ta.


www.myspace.com/chronocide

[Philly Q]

I tried to have a listen, but it's too intense/relentless for me, it was doing my head in.

It sounds as good as this stuff ever does to me, and I don't mean that negatively.

[tomjackson]

I don't really get it, your crust/grind genre that is so can't make an informed comment.  The guitars sounded powerful, for the 30 seconds of the first 2 songs I listened to and things sounded tight.

But like Philly Q it was a bit too much for me, my poor blues/rock/jazz/reggae brain got a bit confused :?

[Antag]

OK, I have to admit that I laughed out loud at the song title "Children of Thalidomide" :lol: but I did listen to all four songs & liked them.

Intense, heavy, fast, decent production (although the drums are a bit "clicky").  I liked the changes of pace.  Wasn't too keen on the vocals - kinda fell into that awkward halfway point between death & black metal.  But the songs held my attention for the entire duration which doesn't always happen when I listen to new extreme metal.

Hope you get a good write-up in Terrorizer - post on here if/when it happens, I might go out & buy it (haven't bought Terrorizer for a few years...)

On a slightly amusing note, how many band names end with "...cide"?  Surely we must be running out of things to kill by now? :)

[nfe]

Cheers to anyone taking the time to listen, obviously I know it's a minority of the population who're going to find it at all palatable  :lol:

And cheers Antag, all the production is me, and I've very much an amateur, learning on the hoof, as it were.


Incidentally, Children of Thalidomide is a tip of the hat to Billy Joel... 8) :lol:

[Johnny Mac]

I've just had a listen on my headphones. I thought it was very tight and well performed but I could only listen up until the bloke started shouting. I do actually like some metal even at this level but I kind of like the grooves and dynamics that some bands have. The production is impressive and so is your drummer. The start of Veil with that subtle fast picked run sounds good too.
It's obvious that you've all been hard at work on these demos so well done I say. I'm sure some of the Metal players here will give it the thumbs up.

[38thBeatle]

Forgive me NFE, it was a little rich for my palette but I would echo what has been said about the production and also the musicianship. 

[gordiji]

nfe, well done, i'm old like the posters before me so i find it a bit much but...... it's a killer opening, i mean like something really terrifying is immenent and then the end minute or so is well metered , tight and interesting.
What both these parts have is SPACE and it's still heavy but musical. The middle bit for me is just noise: thrash but even here if it were just a middle 8 it could be very effective and fun especially in a live situation.
my opinion is only that, i'm not your judge, wish you well and thank you for posting your creation. 

[Keven]

I quite like it! it's very intense and the momentums are great. Tone is perfect for the genre. makes me want to sit in a dark room with candles and just let myself drift with the music, while of course headbanging the hell out of my wig.

well done. When you have something out i'll buy it. seriously.

[nfe]

Here's the wee article in Terrorizer mag I mentioned before. I think we're featured on their covermount cd next month, too.

[Johnny Mac]

You live a few hundred miles of each other? Do some of your band members live outside the UK too? That kind of gives me hope with my band if you can make achievements with these factors!  :D

I like the pic, very sinister.

[nfe]

There's just the two of us, I'm in Glasgow and he's in Sheffield.

I like the pic too, pretentious anonymity for the win!

[nfe]

We also got this blessing of a review for the four track sampler we did for the album, which was nice.

"...this is about as nihilistic as it gets."
PuddaWudda - UKMU

Cruelly snuffed in mainstream media, the garden variety person will have a misinformed view of metal, a picture painted in the mind of shiteforbrains long haired miscreants banging their simple heads, and yet this so far from the truth; it being such a potent medium for emotion, raw and devastating, and it gets little more raw and devastating than Chronocide. With the chaotic, straining to keep it together psychosis of Stravinsky, and a bleak, industrial extremity second to none, this is about as nihilistic as it gets. Using black metal and grind as their rotten foundations, Chronocide write music which isn’t so much moving forward as showing a blatant disregard to all goings on around them, and all the better for it, as the four tracks on the pre-album release Ira, truly are exceptional.

Music to go full on, clinically mad to, these are the baby steps of an absolute monster; close to unbelievable that this is the first effort from this end of the world duo, even more so its still at pre mix/mastering stage, which is it pretty bang-on in itself. Touching upon the blueprint of Codex Necro-era Nathrakh and moulding it into something denser, dirtier, darker, their own, is what have Chronocide have done, by putting through a filter of gravel, grit, grey, Deathspell Omega and all the hate of the twenty first century- “How can we be saved, if we’re dead before we are born?”, the closing words from Children of Thalidomide.

The way the songs are constructed, the vocals, guitars and drums blended together, is equal to that of the well known proprietors of this crazed corner of extreme metal, such as the aforementioned Anaal Nathrakh and Deathspell Omega, as well as elements of Rotten Sound, and the obsidian blackthrash of Absu, which is a testimony to heroic dedication and communication, seeing as the two minds behind the band live at opposite ends of the country. Gleefully underground, they offer an aggression absent in so many other acts, which helps them rise head and shoulders above competition; the militant, one level vocals and the subtle d-beats and drops giving the band that layer of crust I myself am such a fan of.

Along with De Magia Veterum and Gnaw Their Tongues, Chronocide are contributing to more to extreme music than they know, something which in the future, I’m sure, will be picked up on, and dragged, kicking and screaming, into sunlight. Whether a full length can keep up this high level is a question which will be answered in time, but this is a stunning preview. My criticism is low, my anticipation high; judge for yourselves, but this is a must for all fans of truly evil sounds.

RATING:                 
9/10

An incredible debut four tracks, which ticks all the boxes and then rips the sheet into shreds.

[HTH AMPS]

this is right up my street - like this alot  :D

[Philly Q]

That's a hell of a review, congratulations!